Word: burglarized
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...Paris, "Excuse me," said a masked man to two pop-eyed U. S. girls crouching in their hotel bed. "Excuse me, I'm no burglar; it's a bet." The girls, breathing rapidly, blushed furiously. The voice was so pleasant. "I wagered $400," continued the mask, "that I would enter your room. If you'll turn out the light. . . ." Suddenly collecting herself, one of the girls snapped the switch, "I'll go." A black shape glided out the window; the two girls lay whispering for hours. In the morning, a house detective found a velvet mask...
Viscount Haldane: "Once, when a burglar in the Exchequer Court asked for an accounting against his partner, the Court clapped both into prison. A man cannot invoke his own wrong-doing against...
...were to muster before me the murderer with blood-wet hands, the thief in possession of his loot, the highwayman armed with bludgeon and pistol, the firebug with his torch, the burglar with dark lantern and jimmy, and if you were to place with that assembly of rogues the wretch who had corrupted an election, I would unhesitatingly declare the corruptionist the blackest scoundrel of them all. I would so say because the man who attacks the foundations of his Government and thereby assails the very structure of society is the greater criminal, the more intolerable villain, for his criminality...
...very name of radio burglar lurks romance. In reading of his mysterious murders to obtain receiving sets, one gets the uncanny impression that he materializes out of the ether and enters by way of the aerial...
...based is being somewhat allayed by contradictory publicity. In the third-grade of an elementary prison school, two men heralded by the press as master minds are for the first time becoming proficient in the three "R's". After this denouement, people may even believe that the radio burglar is not a sprite akin to static, but only a moron in need of a shave